Because she had suffered so much in the ruins, Mingluo had made sufficient mental preparations when she set foot on this road of survival with no end in sight. However, what was unexpected was that this road was surprisingly smooth. Not to mention traps and wild beasts, there were not even any strange phenomena.
Rather than saying this road is a difficult road to survival, it is better to say it is a secret ice tunnel. When encountering the sliding part, Mingluo even has the illusion of playing on an ice slide.
It's really too comfortable here.
It was so comfortable that even Mingluo, who was always timid and cautious, wanted to chat with everyone, but she still restrained her desire to relax and was always alert to the arrival of unknown dangers.
"Is this the secret escape passage for the construction workers?" Ming Luo thought of the various tomb-themed novels he had read.
Ancient emperors were very ruthless when building tombs. Not only did they set up layers of traps in the tombs, but they also directly sealed the laborers in the tombs to ensure the secrecy of the tombs. However, the wisdom of the working people is endless. It doesn't matter if the main road is blocked, they can just secretly dig a secret passage to escape.
"Construction worker?" Ye Zhihan tilted his head, his eyes filled with curiosity.
"They are the working people who built this ancient city." Ming Luo explained.
"This place was not built by humans." Ye Zhihan said.
Bai Qianqian and Brother Xiong followed behind them, supporting each other as they walked. After hearing about the ancient city, Brother Xiong couldn't help but interject, "This doesn't look like a natural landscape. The entire city was suddenly frozen, and all the residents disappeared without a trace, yet their lives are still going on normally. It doesn't look normal at all."
"The floating stairs and various mechanisms in the dark world at the beginning don't feel like the work of nature." Ming Luo agreed with Brother Xiong's point of view. She had experienced the weirdness here firsthand, and many of them almost cost her life. Many scenes would be difficult to explain if they were not man-made.
"This is an ancient city affected by the power of the Shadow Demon. It is no longer just a destroyed ancient city." Ye Zhihan spoke softly. There are some things that only he, the Shadow Demon, can perceive.
However, this was something he only realized after passing through the Shadow Gate.
Perhaps Fat Peach could also sense it, but now it was frozen unconscious and had to recuperate in the shadow space.
After Ye Zhihan's explanation, Ming Luo realized that the ancient city ruins where he was located had long ago awakened its spiritual intelligence under the influence of the powerful shadow demon power. Just like the ordinary mansion gods on the Suma continent, the ancient city also had its own consciousness and began to awaken its initial abilities.
The reason why Ming Luo was able to fall from the dark stairs into the ice cave that appeared out of thin air was because the ancient city had basic spatial abilities. This was just a small trap it had set.
Apart from the initial appearance of the ancient city, almost all other strange and amazing scenes were created by the ancient city, such as the sharp ice cones standing under the cliff of the ice cave, and the trap that made Bai Qianqian suffer alone.
In other words, it is precisely because the ancient city ruins have their own intelligence that such magnificent and bizarre landscapes have emerged. No wonder Ming Luo felt like he was swallowed by a huge mouth as soon as he entered the ancient city ruins. It turns out that this ancient city is really alive, and they can indeed be said to have been "swallowed".
"Since it's a spatial ability, do the soldiers of my tiger tribe still have a chance of survival?" Bai Qianqian's eyes were burning. She had never forgotten the companions who had been through life and death with her.
"It's not ruled out that some lucky ones can survive." Ye Zhihan glanced at Bai Qianqian and responded coldly.
It was extremely dangerous here. Even she, a Valkyrie of the fifth period of the Qing Dynasty, was almost trapped to death, not to mention those soldiers whose abilities were not as good as hers.
"Don't worry, they are lucky people and they will definitely be able to make it if they have the ability." Brother Xiong comforted Bai Qianqian. She was concerned about the great cause, and he would definitely be by her side.
Bai Qianqian smiled and nodded, giving Brother Xiong a gentle look.
"What about the residents of this ancient city? Where did they go?" Ming Luo asked curiously. If the sudden freezing of the entire city could be explained by the flow of glaciers, then the disappearance of the residents seemed too strange.
"I don't know. Maybe they were all transported to another dimension in an instant, or maybe they were wiped out from the beginning." Ye Zhihan replied. How many people knew the truth about things in ancient times? Faced with a sudden disaster, I'm afraid these indigenous people disappeared without even understanding what happened.
"I hope they were teleported to another place to live a life like in the Peach Blossom Spring." Ming Luo said in a low voice. At this time, she had not thought that this ancient city had witnessed earth-shaking events in ancient times.
She also didn't know that during her coma, a mysterious scroll took away all the words on the jade tablet, and all these contents were closely related to Ye Zhihan.
Ming Luo recalled his own experience and continued to ask: "Have you ever seen a strange white bird?"
"What does it look like?" Bai Qianqian asked. It seemed that she had never encountered a strange bird before.
"The wings are very big, the body is wrinkled, there is a black mist rising from the eyes, the mouth is blood red, and it seems to be very sensitive to light." Ming Luo described it in detail.
"No." Brother Bear answered directly. After he fell from the floating stairs, he fell into the ice cave and did not encounter any other creatures throughout the whole process.
"It should be a parasitic bird." Ye Zhihan pondered for a long time and spoke slowly.
As the name suggests, the parasitic songbird, originally a sharp-beaked songbird, is found in the cold, gloomy canyons of the north. It is omnivorous and extremely resilient. After dying at the bottom of the canyon, it is parasitized by a fungus, which then uses the songbird's body to regenerate it.
However, this creature should have been extinct long ago. I didn’t expect to see a living parasitic songbird in this place.
"Am I the only one who encountered this?" Ming Luo was shocked. Should she say that she was lucky or unlucky to have encountered an extinct creature?
"I also want to see what it looks like. My teacher taught me before, but I have completely forgotten what it looks like. It's an extinct thing, who cares about it!" Brother Xiong's voice is cheerful and sounds quite youthful.
Mingluo didn't want to see those scary birds again. She waved her hands in disdain and said, "Please spare me. I almost died in their mouths last time."
Having said that, Ye Zhihan looked at Ming Luo's expression with a sense of self-blame. Under the illumination of the sunlight grass, she seemed a little frightened, and was even cautiously guarding against the arrival of unknown dangers. She did not blame him at all for not protecting her.
"There is no danger here." Ye Zhihan added. Since the ancient city gained intelligence due to the influence of the power of the Shadow Demon, it is natural that the Shadow Demon should be respected. Now that they have broken into the ruins of the jade tablet in the Shadow Gate, and Ye Zhihan is a well-deserved contemporary Shadow Demon, the ancient city will naturally not be able to stop them.
"Really?" Ming Luo was skeptical. The road ahead was long and it was indeed tiring to keep her nerves tense. After confirming that Ye Zhihan nodded, she relaxed her guard a little.
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